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Copyright  by  W.  H.  Hurst,  1902 


THE 


Short-Hand   Supplement 


BEING  SOME  NEW  INVENTIONS  IN  SHORT- 
HAND WRITING  ARRANGED  FOR  WRITERS 
OF  ISAAC  PITMAN,  BEN  PITMAN,  HOWARD, 
MUNSON,  GRAHAM'S  AND  OTHER  SYSTEMS 
OF  PHONOGRAPHY. 


WILLIAM     H.     HURST 


CHICAGO 
1902 


SHORT-HAND. 

Short-hand  has  been  slowly  developed  during  the  past 
four  centuries  by  a  number  of  inventors.  The  lives  of  these 
geniuses  were  not  contemporaneous.  The  late  Sir  Isaac 
Pitman  is  the  best  known  at  the  present  time,  and  he  prob- 
ably added  the  greatest  number  of  improvements  to  short- 
hand of  any  one  man.  In  his  system  he  adopted  the  best 
of  the  early  inventions,  and  added  many  valuable  ones  of 
his  own.  Since  Mr.  Pitman's  first  edition  was  published 
until  the  present  day  there  has  not  appeared  an  invention 
of  importance  in  short-hand  not  found  in  some  one  of  his 
numerous  editions.  By  this  is  meant  inventions  of  a  funda- 
mental character.  Every  author,  of  course,  makes  some 
trifling  changes,  and  so  far  as  that  goes,  nearly  every 
stenographer  deviates  more  or  less  from  the  text-books. 

The  question  may  be  asked:  Why,  after  making  such 
fundamental  and  important  inventions  in  short-hand  as  the 
author  considers  those  herein  presented  to  be,  he  did  not 
publish  a  "new  system"  as  others  have  done  when  making 
only  trifling  changes,  or  sometimes  doing  nothing  more 
than  selecting  a  uniform  system  from  the  various  editions 
of  the  Pitman  system. 

There  are  two  answers  to  this  question.  The  first  is 
that  these  improvements  are  only  a  part  of  a  system  which 
he  has  developed  and  intends  to  publish  later. 


The  second,  that  these  inventions  are  published  sep- 
arately because  they  may  be  detached  from  the  others  and 
advantageously  adopted  by  all  writers  of  Pitman,  Graham, 
Munson  or  other  system  of  Phonography.  The  remain- 
ing changes,  though  quite  numerous,  are  so  linked  together 
that  to  adopt  one  makes  it  necessary  to  adopt  another  until 
I  he  entire  system  is  included. 

The  invention  of  the  large  circle  for  s//,  as  shown  herein, 
will  be  found  to  be  almost  as  important  as  the  present  use 
of  the  5  circle  invented  by  William  Mason  in  1672,  and 
which  must  still  be  classed  as  the  most  important  develop- 
ment in  short-hand,  except,  of  course,  the  use  of  straight 
and  curved  lines  for  an  alphabet  invented  by  John  Willis, 
(London,  1602). 

Another  invention  here  presented  for  the  first  time  is  the 
use  of  the  large  hook  for  m.  This  use  of  the  large  hook 
will  be  found  to  be  almost  if  not  fully  as  important  as  the 
use  of  the  small  hook  for  ;/  invented  by  Mr.  Pitman,  and 
which  the  writer  considers  one  of  the  best  of  that  author's 
many  additions  to  short-hand. 


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Students  and  Writers  of 
F*h  on  o  graph  y  . 


In  order  to  adopt  the  following  inventions  in  short-hand, 
if  you  are  a  student,  omit  everything  in  ihe  text-books 
regarding  the  large  circle.  Write  the  syllable  ses  with  s 
circle  and  5  stem,  thus: 


Passes,  scissors,  cases,  fences,  Kansas,  advances,  gases, 
fancies,  lances,  announces. 

Also  omit  the  lessons  on  the  shon  hook.     Study  the  fol- 

J 

lowing  instructions  regarding  the  sh  circle  at  the  same  time 
you  do  the  s  circle,  and  consider  the  m  hook  in  connection 
with  the  11  hook. 

If  you  are  a  writer  of  Phonography,  first  change  your 
writing  of  the  syllable  ses,  as  above  recommended,  so  as  to 
avoid  conflict  in  reading  notes.  Then  adopt  all  the  uses  of 
tht*  large  circle  given  below.  After  }xu  have  become 
accustomed  to  writing  the  syllable  shon  phonetically,  it  will 
be  an  easy  matter  to  adopt  the  m  hook. 


The  large  circle  may  be  used  for  s/i  or  zh  in  all  possible 
combinations  as  freely  as  the  5  circle.  The  same  rules 
which  applv  to  the  use  of  the  5  circle  in  your  system  will 
apply  to  the  sh  circle. 

EXAMPLES. 


Shop,  bush,  shine,  gnash,  sham,  shawl,  cash,  rouge, 
measure,  reship,  motion,  passion,  vision,  trash,  shipper, 
shutter,  insure,  insurance,  pressure,  ownership,  partnership, 
courtship,  sonship,  leisure,  vicious,  wish,  bishop,  luxury, 
initial,  washer,  push,  shot,  shod,  dish,  shake,  sugar,  gush, 
shaft,  shave,  fish,  thrash,  slash,  smash. 


and  j 

C/i,  tcli  (As//),  ge  and   dg~e    (dzh]   may   be  written  with  a 
lialf  length  stem  and  a  large  circle  as  shown  below. 

nch  and 


The  large  circle  may  be  written  on  the  same  side  of   half 
length  straight  lines  as  the  ;/  hook  to  form  nts/i  and  ndzh. 


EXAMPLES. 
6    b  - 


Match,  ledge,  pitch,  page,  budge,  touch,  ditch,  catch,  be- 
grudge, judge,  judgment,  matchless,  fetch,  thatch,  notch, 
speech,  inch. 

Bunch,  branch,  tinge,  punch,  drench,  cringe,  grange, 
change,  trench. 


t  and  d  added 

The  large  circle  may  be  made  into  a  large  loop  to  add 
or  (/,  thus: 


Pushed,  mashed,  gnashed,  fished,  lashed,  brushed, 
crushed,  rushed. 

Judged,  notched,  latched,  matched. 

snon 

It  will  be  noticed  that  the  suffix  s/ion  is  written  in  full  in 
above  examples.  This  makes  a  sufficiently  brief  outline; 
but  those,  whose  systems  of  writing  permit,  may  use  the  n 
hook  after  the  large  circle  for  shon,  thus: 

Motion,  nation,  passion,  action,  tension,  attention,  pension, 
detention. 


s 

S  or  z  may  be  added  to  the  s/i  circle  by  an  5  circle,  thus: 


Wishes,  lashes,  cashes,  gashes,  dimensions,  gracious. 

•27*  may  be  distinguished  by  shading  the  circle,  if  desired. 
but  in  practice  this  is  as  superfluous  as  the  shading  of  the 
small  circle  for  z  recommended  in  some  text-books  for 
beginners. 


M 

The  large  final  hook  may  be  used  to  phonetically  repre- 
sent in.  It  is  written  in  the  same  manner  and  on  the  same 
side  of  all  stem  consonants  as  the  n  hook. 

Any  stem  consonant  with  •;;/  hook  attached  may  be  halved 
to  add  /  or  d,  as  shown  below. 

EXAMPLES. 


J    J 


Time,  came,  numb,  dumb,  mum,  dumbness,  cometh, 
bombs,  tempest,  mimic,  damsel,  campaign,  damage,  income, 
column,  thumb,  crumb,  memory,  memorandum,  rhombus, 
rhomboid,  game,  campus,  broom. 

Timed,  dimmed,  named,  lamed,  boomed,  redeemed, 
groomed,  famed,  thumbed,  maimed,  screamed,  schemed. 

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SYLLABICATION. 

The  adoption  of  these  new  phonetic  principles  will  not 
only  add  considerably  to  the  brevity  and  speed  of  short- 
hand, but  will  greatly  increase  its  legibility  by  enabling  the 
stenographer  to  write  a  great  many  more  words  by  syllables. 
The  general  rule  to  followr  when  possible  is  to  write  a  con- 
sonant stem  for  each  syllable,  and  to  arrange  the  hooks  and 
circles  accordingly,  thus: 


NO 

Come,   comma,   pen,   penny,   push,   Pasha,  noise,   noisy, 
bush,  bushy. 


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